Samuel Levy Bensusan: 12 books

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Coleridge. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by S. L. (Samuel Levy) Bensusan,...

Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (June 6, 1599 – August 6, 1660) was a Spanish painter who was the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV and one of the most important painters of the Spanish Golden Age. He was an individualistic artist of the contemporary Baroque period, important...

Sir Peter Paul Rubens ( 28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640), was a Flemish Baroque painter, and a proponent of an extravagant Baroque style that emphasised movement, colour, and sensuality. He is well known for his Counter-Reformation altarpieces, portraits, landscapes, and history paintings of mythological...

To read the works of a great master of letters, or to study the art of a great painter, without some first-hand knowledge of the country in which each lived and from which each gathered his earliest inspiration, is to court an incomplete impression. It is in the light of a life story and its setting,...

THE INFANTE DON BALTHASAR CARLOS This is one of the Prado pictures of King Philip's eldest son by his first wife, the unfortunate little prince who died while he was yet a boy. When this picture was painted Don Balthasar Carlos was six years old. PLATE V.—ANTONIO THE ENGLISHMAN PLATE VI.—ADMIRAL...

It has been a pleasant task to recall the little journey set out in the following pages, but the writer can hardly escape the thought that the title of the book promises more than he has been able to perform. While the real Morocco remains a half-known land to-day, this book does not take the traveller...

The higher Rock. LEAD ME TO THE ROCK THAT IS HIGHER THAN I. Psalm 61:2. This is a humble cry: the cry of a soul needing help—a soul looking outside of and beyond self for aid and succor. Strange and unusual as it is to hear it, it is the most rational cry that the human soul ever uttered. It cannot...

NAPOLEON wurde 1820 zu Waterloo im Eckhaus, vor dem sich die Steinwege nach Nivelles und Genappes trennen, geboren. Sein Kinderleben verließ historischen Boden nicht. Über die durch Hohlwege gekreuzten Flächen, auf denen des Kaisers Kürassiere in Knäueln zu Tode gestürzt waren, gingen seine Soldatenspiele...

Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio (1488/1490 – 27 August 1576) known in English as Titian was an Italian painter, the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, near Belluno (in Veneto), in the Republic of Venice. During his lifetime he was often...

Among the great writers whose activity is associated with the closing years of the eighteenth and the opening of the nineteenth centuries, are several who claim more respect than popularity. If they were poets, their works find a place in a thousand libraries, but the dust gathers upon covers long...